When an 17 yr old hippie, in 1969, I was with a group of older boys. We all did deadly nightshade, which we called belladonna. Each of us ingested a heaping tablespoon of the dried herb. I wound up doing a night in jail, hallucinating heavily all night. From that time onward (am now 71) I have done any drugs, ...not alcohol nor weed nor coffee. Am mentally and physically healthy and planning to compete in a track & field meet for seniors.
Alnwick in Northumberland (Castle) does have a poison plant garden. (you need to book a tour) The Duchess Said that poison plants are interesting and unusual than your common Herb garden.
Don't burn Oleander either, as the smoke can cause problems if inhaled. My mother had these for years & never disposed them by burning or placing on her compost heap. I had a white Angel Trumpet that grew, I figure from a seed dropped by an animal. It produced a large bush with over 100 blooms. It died out when winter set it & didn't come back.
At 2:33 and 2:48 you actually show a Daucus carota, aka Wild Carrot or Queen Anne's Lace, a harmless relative of the Hemlock family, so harmless in fact, the Carrots we eat today are genetically derived from Queen Anne's Lace.
The Gimpy Gimpy plant is also known as the suicide plant. Horses have been known to run of cliffs after touching the plant. There was a report of an officer during WWII (I believe) that used during a bathroom break. He was later found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head.
My nextdoor neighbour has angel trumpets in their front yard. You can smell it, and it does smell really pleasant. You just have to be super careful not to take a huge whiff!
Those Jimson weed plants grow down at the River here in N. California The flowers open at night and smell really good! These huge hummingbird sized Moths (who's eyes light up with reflected flash light beams) feed on the nectar...fortunately only a few drug enthusiasts have figured out what it is...and most of them end up really sick trying to "trip" on it
@@carlajohnson9369 Yeah lol! Like the time my High School Buddy brought over a fith of Southern Comfort....it should be called "Sudden Discomfort!" 🤪🤢🤮
If you know how to process it and know the dosage, it's quite possible to trip on it with very few to no side effects. Same as Ayahuasca. It's one of those 6ou have to know what ur getting into. Before the high comes on, you're gonna puke. No way out of it. But, again if done right it's quite a trip.
Well, yeah. My favorite part is plants that you can eat something from them, but not other things. Like a Yew plant, you can eat the berry, but you have to remove the seed. Or the Black Nightshade, you can eat the berries (and they are very good), but only when they are ripe. The Elderberry plant is the same way, only the ripe berries are good to go. And, a final funny example, the humble potato. The Tubers are one of the planets favorite foods. Fry um, mash um, bake um, or put them in a stew. Yummy! If it's green, watch out!!! If you find the plants nice looking berries, NO NO! Leave them nightshade plant berries alone. Don't eat the greens either. Just the non-green tubers. Oh, careful how you store them in your root cellar too, or you might go down to get something and never come back up, because they release a deadly gas if the right conditions. Nature is confusing to say the least.
The practice of growing yew trees in church yards was to avoid livestock being poisoned by it if grown anywhere else. Yew was well sought after for making bows.
We had an oliander, a nightshade, and a castor bean plant in our backyard when I was a kid. "Don't touch these or you will die!" Thanks for the warning, Mum. :)
Mom was a little overly cautious as mom's are apt to be... Death from touch is obviously a little overblown, unless you're talking about touching it with your digestive tract.
@@salexxavier Yes. But mums also know that kids either stick things in their mouths, or don't wash their hands before sticking /those/ in their mouths, so it's pretty much the same thing for kids. I mean young kids here - 4 to 6, maybe.
I have a beautiful Brugmasia growing in my front room. I kept it down to about 5ft. The perfume from the flowers in the eevening is lovely. Took cuttings from it a few weeks ago and put into a glass of water, they rooted in a couple of weeks
1. The Oleander flower exudes a wonderful sweet fragrance like perfume. Many years ago two young girls in south Texas decided to use the long straight stems of an Oleander bush as skewers on which to roast their sausages at a picnic. Both girls died of cardiac arrest shortly after consuming them. 2. My wife and I visited the country of Panama twice in 2016 and 2017, and we observed the Brugmansia shrubs growing prolifically all over that country and the flowers are spectacularly beautiful. Our wild variety of that plant in America is called Jimson Weed. It smells horrible, which is a warning. It's a member of the Solanaceae group of plants and is related to Tobacco, Tomato, and Potato. 3. The very beautiful jewel-like Yew berry is deliciously creamy and sweet, but if you happen to swallow the seed you risk cardiac (heart) failure. Best to leave it alone and warn your children.
Do you have source for the oleander story because it sounds like a typical urban legend. Actually, I searched Pubmed and found an article where the investigators did just that - skewer sausager on Oleander branches and roast them, then analyze them for toxicity. They found that the amount of toxic substances transferred was absolutely negligible. They conclude that it IS an urban myth. Also, fatalities from nerium poisoning are exceedingly rare and the prognosis is generally excellent.
@@evanherk That's like people saying how you'll get cyanide poisoning if you swallow apple seeds. Which in reality, yes it may be possible. But you literally have to swallow TONS of apple seeds to get the effect. The same goes for grandparents who like to spook uneducated children by telling them a water melon will grow in their bellies if they swallow a seed. Urban Legends and fear mongering, nothing more. Especially if the story was seen on the news, they couldn't tell the truth to save their lives.
I wondered if you'd mention Hogweed. As a ladscaper it can be a real danger to me on sites where it grows hidden among other things, I've had some nasty blistering down my arms and hands when I've hit patches of it with machinery (mostly string trimmers) before and the sap had splattered on me. Every summer there's at least one story in the papers here in the UK about ramblers/children who have stumbled into patches of the stuff and ended up looking like they fell into a vat of boiling water.
It is an altogether vile plant with no redeeming features. The last time I met with it in Cornwall in 2009, I was strimming through the stuff (does it have a deeply corrugated stem that is hollow?) and it stood over six feet high. The juices were flying everywhere but thankfully I was wearing safety goggles. However, I got it on my arms and sore, itchy blisters soon formed; the scars lasted years. The juice kept hitting my lips and the taste is extremely bitter and obnoxious. The juice even faded the dye on my clothing and the many blotches not only radically faded the colours but rotted the material, eventually leading to holes appearing even after washing. It is a useless, horrible and invasive plant and people need to be careful of it and many others in the video. Regs. M.
@@marknestbox Same thing with me, the rest of me was covered so it only splattered my arms, I'm brown as a nut now thanks to the weather we've been enjoying so my pink blotches are pretty well hidden. I did know about the dangers of these plants but at the time the stalks hadn't formed yet so I was strimming through all the hidden leaves / growing stalks not knowing they were there. I think the stems are indeed hollow when fully grown.
@@Chicken-x6q6d It was only after I had written the previous piece that I recalled having been an even bigger twit at the time, because I was only wearing knee-length khaki shorts (it was a hot summer and very hard work) and my legs were also in a bad way afterwards. Ludicrous. This idiot carried on regardless (like macho men do) and ended up with nettle stings and open cuts from brambles. Moreover, aside of the mozzi's biting me, I was stung by a horsefly or wasp through my sock(!) and a large weal formed by my ankle and yes, it hurt for days after. I often think how lucky we are in the UK in not having the many natural hazards found elsewhere in the world, whether dangerous plants or animals / insects, but the truth is we do have them to a degree. One of the most that I fear is the Adder, our only poisonous snake. I have only ever crossed them on a few occasions while on camping rambles. They may be uncommon, but you still have to be wary of them in appropriate habitats.
Very well done and accurate. I suggest adding (Datura). it’s similar to Jimson weed but much showier and is often grown as an ornamental in the southern US as well as growing wild all over the Southwest. People are much more likely to come in contact with it here in the US.
As I understand, jimson weed got its name as a corruption of "Jamestown" when colonists in Jamestown slipped some into the Redcoats' rations to make them temporarily stupid.
I thought the umbrella-like plant with all the flowers hanging downward was datura? I've seen plants that look like that sold as datura in garden catalogues. I had trouble hearing the video and there was no closed captioning, and I'd look away and miss a plant name - since I thought I knew that one, I didn't roll it back.
Additional: I found the name brugmansia in a comment farther down, and that's probably what the plant I referenced was called. Now that I'm reminded, I think I've seen plants sold as datura and brugmansia that were so similar I couldn't have told them apart.
We had Jimson Weed growing in our veggie garden about three or four years ago. It is both pretty (IMO) and imposing to see growing in your yard. Especially if it is a plant you've never even seen growing on your property before. Because I've never seen it before over all of the many years I've lived here I got curious and looked it up. From all of the various places I've read about it, touching it wasn't even an issue. Treat it like any other weed and remove it smartly using gloves and PPE. From all the info I've read about the dangers of it's toxicity is when someone is stupid and decides to eat the plant or turn it into some hallucination juice to get a buzz. Preventing it from spreading is also not as difficult as it is made out to be. The plants only grow so many spikey seed pods on them over the summer, just cut them off before they even open and the plant can't spread. We left the one we had in our garden alone for the summer because the flower was pretty. We made sure to cut off the seed pods before they could even do anything and none of our chickens were even interested in it. For the most part it was just there and it went away the next season because we didn't allow it to spread. Being in a climate with a snowy winter also helps. Reading up on something that is inherently dangerous will make you less afraid of it. Especially if it's from a place that gives actual facts about how it is dangerous to you. What doesn't help is places that just say "It's so dangerous, don't even look at it or your eyes will melt and your head will explode." That isn't facts on what makes it dangerous to you, that is just fear mongering. So if you encounter Jimson Weed growing in your yard just be smart about it and read up on it first. Being in a location with a snowy winter helps rid of it especially if you prevent the seed pods from developing. No seeds means no spreading, simple as that. We have weeds in this area that are native to the region and they'll give irritation to some people and none to others. The same goes for Poison Ivy, some people are immune and others are so sensitive just hearing the name will give them rashes.
NB- do not ever burn Oleander wood either, even the smoke is very toxic and easier to ingest than the bitter sap would be. Actually there are lots of other equally pretty shrubs you can grow instead of Oleander which aren't toxic like Tamarisk, Carolina Allspice, Mexican Orange blossom and hundreds of others which enjoy the same conditions as Oleander.
Brugmansia has native North American cousins. These plants are of the Nightshade family. N. American wild natives are: Poison Nightshade, Jimson weed and the various Ground cherries. The domesticated plants tomato, potatoes, eggplant, tobacco and all peppers that we all eat everyday is also a nightshade member. The Morning glories are also related to the tomato / nightshade family.
Deadly nightshade is even a big problem here in new Zealand to ..the worse part is it regrows even from little spikes of roots in the ground after u pull it out ..the best way to kill it is snap it at the base repeatedly it eventually runs out of steam to regenerate
Fascinating. In my culture we use both oleander and rosary pea as medicines. And yes they do work😅. On The other hand the deadly nightshade is one of my favorite vegetables, we cook both it’s leaves and the seeds, though the seeds are a little bitter but we used to it by now.
Im a career florist. I have used monks hood many times without a problem. There must be a non poisonous variety. But it looks just like tall bright blue flower in this video. Delphinium is commonly used in floridt shops everywhere. And is candied and used on wedfing cakes ect. Very common in the spring and summer.
They're so gung-ho here on Vancouver Island the grunt crews were killing the cow parsnip as well, which is barely similar to hogweed. The locals had to go out and get the herbicide kids' ear and show them the difference themselves coz they didn't learn it at the company.
Hogweed grows wild everywhere in the states now.. I’ve located two plants within 5 miles, growing on the side of a walking trail and alongside a road.. I had also seen a kayaker that had a red birthmark look, that he outlined with ink, to resemble continents and islands, was thinking later, he got into a plant and had no clue, so a tattoo surrounding it was the answer, 7 years later as his skin returns, the ink will remain..
Seriously, am I the only person who was born with sense? I spent half my childhood in the woods and nature in general, mostly by myself (I was literally born an RPG player for real life, exploring everything to the point my mother stopped worrying about me, because it was better for her sanity) and not a single one of these plants, some I actually ran into, seem even remotely edible. Like, seriously, water hemlock is everywhere where I grew up. That shit smells horribly inedible. Also, who in their right mind think black and red colouring = safe? WHAT ON PLANET EARTH IS SAFE THAT IS BLACK AND RED? Other than a spider that uses this colouring to pretend it's a Black Widow...
my mom had Oleander grow for years and although she did mention don't touch, it was lightly, never saying about the danger ... O well we survived it... I did like the plant it is pretty especially in bloom...
I have several of these plants and more. It seems like the most beautiful are the most dangerous. I didn't realize just how deadly my landscaping was until I downloaded the Picture this app.
Brugmansia is very similar to datura and can also act as a deliriant hallucinogen, but its so insanely dangerous to try to dose it since potency can vary massively between plants.
Yes, they used Queen Anne's Lace pictures which is misleading AND deadly. I am deeply involved with herbalism, wild edibles and medicines. There can be no mistaking these plants if you're going to eat the weeds as I do. We have both water Hemlock and poison Hemlock growing here in Ohio in massive amounts along with giant Pigweed. I see it everywhere. They are a tall plant with widely spread umbels of rather widely spread white flowers and the stalks typically are many branched and with purple spots. Q-A-L flowers are typically singular, no more than 2-3 feet high and very densely packed with a single red floret in the middle (may not be present in very young florets). Giant Pigweed has phototoxic sap that causes severe skin rash and burning when exposed to sunlight and UV rays. Pigweed, Q-A-L, poison and water Hemlock are all members of the carrot family like celery and others. LEARN and KNOW your weeds BEFORE you ever sample them! If you cannot 100% positively ID them, DO NOT eat them! Get expert advice.
When talking about deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) you also showed a few clips of the related black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) as well. They are not the same plant. While black nightshade is poisonous as well, the fully ripe berries are edible. Not so with deadly nightshade.
Yup. Those with the multiple smaller green berries and then the multiple ripe berries. You can eat the ripe ones, they make a darn good pie too. I've heard several people refer to them as "Huckleberries". Of course, this common name is used for other dark berries as well. In any event, you obviously DO NOT EAT anything you are not 100% sure of. Often, I'll pass on things because of this rule... it looks 99%, but I'm not willing to roll the dice for a tidbit of food. 🙂 Your tolerance for this may vary, but it shouldn't.
Although deadly nightshade is dangerous but it has compound called Atropine As Germans scientist and British scientist used Atropine to treat patients who had chemical poisoning but there are side effects to it also.
@@RichardLionheart12 definitely. It also contains scopolamine and hyoscyamine, both of which also have vital medical applications. The dose makes the poison.
As a child who grew up in the making of castor oil, this is news to my ears. I wonder if my mother even knew this cos I'm certain I've popped a good one or two🤔
My Grandmother grew castor beans all the time….for the seeds ! She dropped them down Gopher holes !!!!! Gophers are responsible for cows stepping in those holes & breaking their legs !!! Now, that’s costly !
Generally true, however, first of spring Common milkweed shoots CAN be boiled and eaten. However, growing at the same time, from the milkweed family, and almost identical is the spreading dogbane which is toxic and grows in the same regions, conditions, locations, and mixes in with Common milkweed. I have both mixed within each other here. Best to completely avoid.
I handle and grow most of these without problem, only manchineel can not be handled, the rest is toxic when eaten in amounts. This channel is mostly about fear mongering.
It actually amazes me at how much oleander is used in landscaping. One of the most deadly poisons known to man and we just plant it in our front yards and next to our schools and shopping centers.
Honestly it is safe-ish most of the time. i remember touching them as a kid and smelling the flowers when my grandma had 3+ oleanders in her garden, my mom always had two of those, one of them is still in my garden. We need to carry them indoors for winter and carry it outdoors for summer. Never experienced any issues BUT it is very important to be careful with it and warn kids about it. Also yew trees are very, very popular in Central Europe, even though it is so deadly. Actually it amazes me and scares a little, how many highly toxic plants are native to Central Europe - deadly nightshade, water hemlock, wolfsbane, poison hemlock, and many other plants. Also Sosnowsky's hogweed is annoying plant that is invasive, I saw what it does to the skin and it is not pretty. Well, plants are amazing, yet scary - sometimes - beings :D
@@pixywings Yea but still some plants are crazy :D Although fascinating, I have many plants, used to have many toxic ones, now I mostly have non-toxic since I have pets and don't wanna risk their health.
One thing about oleander--DON'T ever try to trim it as you'll either have a breathing problem or a rash that's hard to get rid of it. I knew of this as my parents & I lived in California! Ugh!!!!😮
There was a case many years ago of an entire Boy Scout troop getting wiped out when the troop leader had the boys cut some hot dog skewers out of oleander.
Many folk here in the UK keep getting effected by this plant. Because it looks exactly like a natrual flowering tree we have here. We easily mistake it.
I've been stung by a nettle (Urtica dioica) before, and that was really painful. At least we don't have things like Poison Ivy and Oak in this country!
I'm having a tough time distinguishing the difference between Queen anne's lace and poison hemlock. Even this video showed some clips that I'm pretty sure was Queen anne's lace, not hemlock.
Poison and water Hemlock are tall plants with widely spread umbels, typically purple spotted and branched stems, and typically in ditches, wet places and along fields. First-year plants are low to the ground leaf florets with no flowers and fine carrot-like leaves. They grow tall and produce seed the second year. Q-A-L is generally no more than 2-3 feet tall, in fields with singular, densely packed flower florets and fine carrot-like leaves and very thin, spaghetti-like stalks. The most prominent giveaways for Q-A-L is that single red flower in the middle of the floret. (May not be present in very young florets). No, you were not wrong. They showed Q-A-L florets in with the Hemlock. This is misleading and deadly.
Ive heard white baneberry called poor mans heroin. Im told thats literally the feeling it gives you. But with no way to measure how much compound is in each berry, and the fact that it can waiver immensly from fruit to fruit... I'll just take the word for it.
you are underestimating the gimpy gimpy plant. Ive rad that it is described as being douse in acid while set on fire levels of pain and some animals and one human case where the individual was driven to suicide to relive the pain
My gramma would give all us kids a big spoonful of castor oil before bedtime to "keep you regular" every night for at least the first 12 years of our lives. I hated the taste.
well I live in the middle of a desert wasteland about the only plant we have is the traditional cactus animals the North American mountain lion bighorn sheep in about 15 different varieties of cottonmouth including the standard North American Diamondback.
because the deadly nightshade and leunca ARNT the same species, they look similar, they are related to each other, but thats it. your leunca is called SOLANUM NIGRUM deadly nightshade is called SOLANUM DULCAMARA LEARN TO GOOGLE AND QUESTION EVERY VIDEO YOU SEE ON TH-cam.
there is a plant that grows close to the Gympie-Gympie that if you rub it over the affected area it will stop the effect I learn this in the army many years ago (you should look into it ok.
When an 17 yr old hippie, in 1969, I was with a group of older boys. We all did deadly nightshade, which we called belladonna. Each of us ingested a heaping tablespoon of the dried herb. I wound up doing a night in jail, hallucinating heavily all night. From that time onward (am now 71) I have done any drugs, ...not alcohol nor weed nor coffee. Am mentally and physically healthy and planning to compete in a track & field meet for seniors.
Thank you for the update, Top Fives..!! This is a very important topic to learn for everyone..!!
Very interesting, however i have never thought about going out and eating any plants ever.
You mean vegetables? Aren't those plants?
@@darrellcook8253: True, but what i meant was going out picking and eating or touching strange unknown plants and flowers.
@@Glenrsi I know what you meant.
@@darrellcook8253 you knew what he meant please tell me you're joking
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Alnwick in Northumberland (Castle) does have a poison plant garden. (you need to book a tour) The Duchess Said that poison plants are interesting and unusual than your common Herb garden.
Don't burn Oleander either, as the smoke can cause problems if inhaled. My mother had these for years & never disposed them by burning or placing on her compost heap. I had a white Angel Trumpet that grew, I figure from a seed dropped by an animal. It produced a large bush with over 100 blooms. It died out when winter set it & didn't come back.
I love your advice for everything on this list “it’s best to stay away from them all together “ 😂😂😂
Recently, a lady simply smelled angels trumpet flowers, and had to be hospitalized because even the Aroma of them can cause accidental overdose.
Such a crap, i grow them for years and sniff their flowers every summer,nothing happens!
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I love how all of these shows a clip of someone touching the plants while describing the dangers of it...
Touch them all you want I guess, just don't eat them. Title should be plants you should never eat.
Glad to see Solid Snake has got a job as a botanist narrator
At 2:33 and 2:48 you actually show a Daucus carota, aka Wild Carrot or Queen Anne's Lace, a harmless relative of the Hemlock family, so harmless in fact, the Carrots we eat today are genetically derived from Queen Anne's Lace.
Yes and I am a novice and noticed that!!! .. but no comment back 🧐 that makes me question the content of these videos
The Gimpy Gimpy plant is also known as the suicide plant. Horses have been known to run of cliffs after touching the plant. There was a report of an officer during WWII (I believe) that used during a bathroom break. He was later found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head.
I wouldn't wanna touch that
I live in Gympie 😊 and have been unlucky enough to be stung. Ouchy mama!
@@SachaZoey 😳
This video helps me allot
My nextdoor neighbour has angel trumpets in their front yard. You can smell it, and it does smell really pleasant. You just have to be super careful not to take a huge whiff!
I live in Florida and I've seen many stores and nurseries with angel trumpets for sale 😬
Thank goodness u posted this video! I was just about to to go outside and chew on some plants! Phew… 😮💨
Those Jimson weed plants grow down at the River here in N. California
The flowers open at night and smell really good! These huge hummingbird sized Moths (who's eyes light up with reflected flash light beams) feed on the nectar...fortunately only a few drug enthusiasts have figured out what it is...and most of them end up really sick trying to "trip" on it
I try NEVER to injest anything that may provoke puking out my nose and diarrhea later.i learned that in high school 🙄😱
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Yeah lol! Like the time my High School Buddy brought over a fith of Southern Comfort....it should be called "Sudden Discomfort!" 🤪🤢🤮
@@chrisvesy7245 😂
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LOL!! Hope you have a mreth bint afterward🤪
If you know how to process it and know the dosage, it's quite possible to trip on it with very few to no side effects. Same as Ayahuasca. It's one of those 6ou have to know what ur getting into. Before the high comes on, you're gonna puke. No way out of it. But, again if done right it's quite a trip.
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I am so glad i watched this, im going to make my kids watch it too, just to be sure.
seems a lot of the most beautiful looking flowers are the most toxic. thank you for pointing out these deadly plants. sure has been an eye opener
Plants and people share quite a few things in common it would seem 😀
Well, yeah. My favorite part is plants that you can eat something from them, but not other things. Like a Yew plant, you can eat the berry, but you have to remove the seed. Or the Black Nightshade, you can eat the berries (and they are very good), but only when they are ripe. The Elderberry plant is the same way, only the ripe berries are good to go. And, a final funny example, the humble potato. The Tubers are one of the planets favorite foods. Fry um, mash um, bake um, or put them in a stew. Yummy! If it's green, watch out!!! If you find the plants nice looking berries, NO NO! Leave them nightshade plant berries alone. Don't eat the greens either. Just the non-green tubers. Oh, careful how you store them in your root cellar too, or you might go down to get something and never come back up, because they release a deadly gas if the right conditions. Nature is confusing to say the least.
The practice of growing yew trees in church yards was to avoid livestock being poisoned by it if grown anywhere else. Yew was well sought after for making bows.
We had an oliander, a nightshade, and a castor bean plant in our backyard when I was a kid. "Don't touch these or you will die!" Thanks for the warning, Mum. :)
Mom was a little overly cautious as mom's are apt to be... Death from touch is obviously a little overblown, unless you're talking about touching it with your digestive tract.
@@salexxavier Yes. But mums also know that kids either stick things in their mouths, or don't wash their hands before sticking /those/ in their mouths, so it's pretty much the same thing for kids.
I mean young kids here - 4 to 6, maybe.
I have a beautiful Brugmasia growing in my front room. I kept it down to about 5ft. The perfume from the flowers in the eevening is lovely. Took cuttings from it a few weeks ago and put into a glass of water, they rooted in a couple of weeks
RIP to our ancestors for testing this out for us.
1. The Oleander flower exudes a wonderful sweet fragrance like perfume. Many years ago two young girls in south Texas decided to use the long straight stems of an Oleander bush as skewers on which to roast their sausages at a picnic. Both girls died of cardiac arrest shortly after consuming them.
2. My wife and I visited the country of Panama twice in 2016 and 2017, and we observed the Brugmansia shrubs growing prolifically all over that country and the flowers are spectacularly beautiful. Our wild variety of that plant in America is called Jimson Weed. It smells horrible, which is a warning. It's a member of the Solanaceae group of plants and is related to Tobacco, Tomato, and Potato.
3. The very beautiful jewel-like Yew berry is deliciously creamy and sweet, but if you happen to swallow the seed you risk cardiac (heart) failure. Best to leave it alone and warn your children.
Do you have source for the oleander story because it sounds like a typical urban legend. Actually, I searched Pubmed and found an article where the investigators did just that - skewer sausager on Oleander branches and roast them, then analyze them for toxicity. They found that the amount of toxic substances transferred was absolutely negligible. They conclude that it IS an urban myth. Also, fatalities from nerium poisoning are exceedingly rare and the prognosis is generally excellent.
@@evanherk That's like people saying how you'll get cyanide poisoning if you swallow apple seeds. Which in reality, yes it may be possible. But you literally have to swallow TONS of apple seeds to get the effect. The same goes for grandparents who like to spook uneducated children by telling them a water melon will grow in their bellies if they swallow a seed. Urban Legends and fear mongering, nothing more. Especially if the story was seen on the news, they couldn't tell the truth to save their lives.
I wondered if you'd mention Hogweed. As a ladscaper it can be a real danger to me on sites where it grows hidden among other things, I've had some nasty blistering down my arms and hands when I've hit patches of it with machinery (mostly string trimmers) before and the sap had splattered on me. Every summer there's at least one story in the papers here in the UK about ramblers/children who have stumbled into patches of the stuff and ended up looking like they fell into a vat of boiling water.
It is an altogether vile plant with no redeeming features. The last time I met with it in Cornwall in 2009, I was strimming through the stuff (does it have a deeply corrugated stem that is hollow?) and it stood over six feet high. The juices were flying everywhere but thankfully I was wearing safety goggles. However, I got it on my arms and sore, itchy blisters soon formed; the scars lasted years. The juice kept hitting my lips and the taste is extremely bitter and obnoxious. The juice even faded the dye on my clothing and the many blotches not only radically faded the colours but rotted the material, eventually leading to holes appearing even after washing. It is a useless, horrible and invasive plant and people need to be careful of it and many others in the video. Regs. M.
@@marknestbox Same thing with me, the rest of me was covered so it only splattered my arms, I'm brown as a nut now thanks to the weather we've been enjoying so my pink blotches are pretty well hidden. I did know about the dangers of these plants but at the time the stalks hadn't formed yet so I was strimming through all the hidden leaves / growing stalks not knowing they were there. I think the stems are indeed hollow when fully grown.
@@Chicken-x6q6d It was only after I had written the previous piece that I recalled having been an even bigger twit at the time, because I was only wearing knee-length khaki shorts (it was a hot summer and very hard work) and my legs were also in a bad way afterwards. Ludicrous. This idiot carried on regardless (like macho men do) and ended up with nettle stings and open cuts from brambles. Moreover, aside of the mozzi's biting me, I was stung by a horsefly or wasp through my sock(!) and a large weal formed by my ankle and yes, it hurt for days after. I often think how lucky we are in the UK in not having the many natural hazards found elsewhere in the world, whether dangerous plants or animals / insects, but the truth is we do have them to a degree. One of the most that I fear is the Adder, our only poisonous snake. I have only ever crossed them on a few occasions while on camping rambles. They may be uncommon, but you still have to be wary of them in appropriate habitats.
@@marknestbox We call it boľševník obrovský (something like the Giant Bolshevik Plant) in Slovakia for a good reason.
Giat Hogweed is number 6
This guys voice killed 😂😂everything he said sounded like a snarky remark
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Very well done and accurate. I suggest adding (Datura). it’s similar to Jimson weed but much showier and is often grown as an ornamental in the southern US as well as growing wild all over the Southwest. People are much more likely to come in contact with it here in the US.
As I understand, jimson weed got its name as a corruption of "Jamestown" when colonists in Jamestown slipped some into the Redcoats' rations to make them temporarily stupid.
Datura is the genus that jimson weed belongs to, not a specific plant
I thought the umbrella-like plant with all the flowers hanging downward was datura? I've seen plants that look like that sold as datura in garden catalogues. I had trouble hearing the video and there was no closed captioning, and I'd look away and miss a plant name - since I thought I knew that one, I didn't roll it back.
Additional: I found the name brugmansia in a comment farther down, and that's probably what the plant I referenced was called. Now that I'm reminded, I think I've seen plants sold as datura and brugmansia that were so similar I couldn't have told them apart.
"Here's a plant that is so toxic that it will kill you if you as much as think about it and here's a video of someone touching it with their hands."
The name of Giant Hogweed in Dutch is ‘Berenklauw’ which translates to Beer Claw in english.
We had Jimson Weed growing in our veggie garden about three or four years ago. It is both pretty (IMO) and imposing to see growing in your yard. Especially if it is a plant you've never even seen growing on your property before. Because I've never seen it before over all of the many years I've lived here I got curious and looked it up. From all of the various places I've read about it, touching it wasn't even an issue. Treat it like any other weed and remove it smartly using gloves and PPE. From all the info I've read about the dangers of it's toxicity is when someone is stupid and decides to eat the plant or turn it into some hallucination juice to get a buzz.
Preventing it from spreading is also not as difficult as it is made out to be. The plants only grow so many spikey seed pods on them over the summer, just cut them off before they even open and the plant can't spread. We left the one we had in our garden alone for the summer because the flower was pretty. We made sure to cut off the seed pods before they could even do anything and none of our chickens were even interested in it. For the most part it was just there and it went away the next season because we didn't allow it to spread. Being in a climate with a snowy winter also helps.
Reading up on something that is inherently dangerous will make you less afraid of it. Especially if it's from a place that gives actual facts about how it is dangerous to you. What doesn't help is places that just say "It's so dangerous, don't even look at it or your eyes will melt and your head will explode." That isn't facts on what makes it dangerous to you, that is just fear mongering.
So if you encounter Jimson Weed growing in your yard just be smart about it and read up on it first. Being in a location with a snowy winter helps rid of it especially if you prevent the seed pods from developing. No seeds means no spreading, simple as that. We have weeds in this area that are native to the region and they'll give irritation to some people and none to others. The same goes for Poison Ivy, some people are immune and others are so sensitive just hearing the name will give them rashes.
NB- do not ever burn Oleander wood either, even the smoke is very toxic and easier to ingest than the bitter sap would be. Actually there are lots of other equally pretty shrubs you can grow instead of Oleander which aren't toxic like Tamarisk, Carolina Allspice, Mexican Orange blossom and hundreds of others which enjoy the same conditions as Oleander.
Brugmansia has native North American cousins. These plants are of the Nightshade family. N. American wild natives are: Poison Nightshade, Jimson weed and the various Ground cherries. The domesticated plants tomato, potatoes, eggplant, tobacco and all peppers that we all eat everyday is also a nightshade member. The Morning glories are also related to the tomato / nightshade family.
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Deadly nightshade is even a big problem here in new Zealand to ..the worse part is it regrows even from little spikes of roots in the ground after u pull it out ..the best way to kill it is snap it at the base repeatedly it eventually runs out of steam to regenerate
I used to play with Rosary Pea when I was a small child. I don't think we were aware that it was toxic 😬
Fascinating. In my culture we use both oleander and rosary pea as medicines. And yes they do work😅. On The other hand the deadly nightshade is one of my favorite vegetables, we cook both it’s leaves and the seeds, though the seeds are a little bitter but we used to it by now.
Great video👍👍
I noticed bees on some of these toxic plants. My question is how can one be sure the honey people consume from these poisonous plants are safe?
Im a career florist. I have used monks hood many times without a problem. There must be a non poisonous variety. But it looks just like tall bright blue flower in this video. Delphinium is commonly used in floridt shops everywhere. And is candied and used on wedfing cakes ect. Very common in the spring and summer.
All look and sound delicious!
It's quite troublesome and weird that we almost never have a chance to distinguish which one is toxic or dangerous among others in common life.
I would probably advise never touch a plant if you are not sure what it is.
Hogweed causes terrible blisters, here in the Netherlands they’re being burned
They're so gung-ho here on Vancouver Island the grunt crews were killing the cow parsnip as well, which is barely similar to hogweed. The locals had to go out and get the herbicide kids' ear and show them the difference themselves coz they didn't learn it at the company.
17:00 The source for the clip... Best last name EVER! Ramsbottom
Hogweed grows wild everywhere in the states now.. I’ve located two plants within 5 miles, growing on the side of a walking trail and alongside a road.. I had also seen a kayaker that had a red birthmark look, that he outlined with ink, to resemble continents and islands, was thinking later, he got into a plant and had no clue, so a tattoo surrounding it was the answer, 7 years later as his skin returns, the ink will remain..
Just look how bad i feel for the cows goats sheeps others that just want something to eat 😂😂😂😂😂 3:24
I’m from the Caribbean and used to climb manchineel trees but never had any problems with it
Yew tree: not mentioned is how commonly its wood was used in the past. It's both strong and flexible, making it perfect for archery bows.
Gotta love that California has oleanders planted throughout the state on the medians of every state highway. 😂
Seriously, am I the only person who was born with sense? I spent half my childhood in the woods and nature in general, mostly by myself (I was literally born an RPG player for real life, exploring everything to the point my mother stopped worrying about me, because it was better for her sanity) and not a single one of these plants, some I actually ran into, seem even remotely edible. Like, seriously, water hemlock is everywhere where I grew up. That shit smells horribly inedible. Also, who in their right mind think black and red colouring = safe? WHAT ON PLANET EARTH IS SAFE THAT IS BLACK AND RED? Other than a spider that uses this colouring to pretend it's a Black Widow...
Other than the Yew tree. That is an assassin tree, lol.
blackberries😅
my mom had Oleander grow for years and although she did mention don't touch, it was lightly, never saying about the danger ... O well we survived it... I did like the plant it is pretty especially in bloom...
I have several of these plants and more. It seems like the most beautiful are the most dangerous. I didn't realize just how deadly my landscaping was until I downloaded the Picture this app.
Brugmansia is very similar to datura and can also act as a deliriant hallucinogen, but its so insanely dangerous to try to dose it since potency can vary massively between plants.
If I am not mistaken, many of the images for water hemlock is actually Queen Anne’s Lace…
Yes, they used Queen Anne's Lace pictures which is misleading AND deadly.
I am deeply involved with herbalism, wild edibles and medicines. There can be no mistaking these plants if you're going to eat the weeds as I do.
We have both water Hemlock and poison Hemlock growing here in Ohio in massive amounts along with giant Pigweed. I see it everywhere. They are a tall plant with widely spread umbels of rather widely spread white flowers and the stalks typically are many branched and with purple spots. Q-A-L flowers are typically singular, no more than 2-3 feet high and very densely packed with a single red floret in the middle (may not be present in very young florets).
Giant Pigweed has phototoxic sap that causes severe skin rash and burning when exposed to sunlight and UV rays.
Pigweed, Q-A-L, poison and water Hemlock are all members of the carrot family like celery and others.
LEARN and KNOW your weeds BEFORE you ever sample them! If you cannot 100% positively ID them, DO NOT eat them! Get expert advice.
Thanks for sharing
When talking about deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) you also showed a few clips of the related black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) as well. They are not the same plant. While black nightshade is poisonous as well, the fully ripe berries are edible. Not so with deadly nightshade.
Yup. Those with the multiple smaller green berries and then the multiple ripe berries. You can eat the ripe ones, they make a darn good pie too. I've heard several people refer to them as "Huckleberries". Of course, this common name is used for other dark berries as well. In any event, you obviously DO NOT EAT anything you are not 100% sure of. Often, I'll pass on things because of this rule... it looks 99%, but I'm not willing to roll the dice for a tidbit of food. 🙂 Your tolerance for this may vary, but it shouldn't.
Although deadly nightshade is dangerous but it has compound called Atropine As Germans scientist and British scientist used Atropine to treat patients who had chemical poisoning but there are side effects to it also.
@@RichardLionheart12 definitely. It also contains scopolamine and hyoscyamine, both of which also have vital medical applications. The dose makes the poison.
What happen to Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, and Poison Sumac.
They are harmless compared to the plants mentioned in the video
*"I know what I have to do, but I don't think I have the strength to do it."*
Beautiful but deadly 😮🌺
As a child who grew up in the making of castor oil, this is news to my ears. I wonder if my mother even knew this cos I'm certain I've popped a good one or two🤔
It's still a little trick up the sleeve for laboring women...CONSULT YOUR BIRTHING SUPERVISOR. Castor is toxic
My Grandmother grew castor beans all the time….for the seeds ! She dropped them down Gopher holes !!!!! Gophers are responsible for cows stepping in those holes & breaking their legs !!! Now, that’s costly !
My grandfather told me as a child to stay away from any plant that has a milky sap.
Generally true, however, first of spring Common milkweed shoots CAN be boiled and eaten. However, growing at the same time, from the milkweed family, and almost identical is the spreading dogbane which is toxic and grows in the same regions, conditions, locations, and mixes in with Common milkweed. I have both mixed within each other here. Best to completely avoid.
Plants you should never touch...and you show people handling them. Wow! Just wow.
I handle and grow most of these without problem, only manchineel can not be handled, the rest is toxic when eaten in amounts.
This channel is mostly about fear mongering.
It actually amazes me at how much oleander is used in landscaping. One of the most deadly poisons known to man and we just plant it in our front yards and next to our schools and shopping centers.
Honestly it is safe-ish most of the time. i remember touching them as a kid and smelling the flowers when my grandma had 3+ oleanders in her garden, my mom always had two of those, one of them is still in my garden. We need to carry them indoors for winter and carry it outdoors for summer. Never experienced any issues BUT it is very important to be careful with it and warn kids about it. Also yew trees are very, very popular in Central Europe, even though it is so deadly. Actually it amazes me and scares a little, how many highly toxic plants are native to Central Europe - deadly nightshade, water hemlock, wolfsbane, poison hemlock, and many other plants. Also Sosnowsky's hogweed is annoying plant that is invasive, I saw what it does to the skin and it is not pretty. Well, plants are amazing, yet scary - sometimes - beings :D
@@Nika44 I have been around the stuff my whole life. As long as you don't actually try to eat it it's mostly harmless.
@@pixywings Yea but still some plants are crazy :D Although fascinating, I have many plants, used to have many toxic ones, now I mostly have non-toxic since I have pets and don't wanna risk their health.
Chris Kane could psychically will the flowers to bloom if he felt like it.
One thing about oleander--DON'T ever try to trim it as you'll either have a breathing problem or a rash that's hard to get rid of it. I knew of this as my parents & I lived in California! Ugh!!!!😮
Although the narrator said yew berries aren't poisonous, my understanding is that the berries are the MOST poisonous part of the plant.
I had no idea oleander wasn’t native to California
Who came here because of the thumbnail?
AND BOY WAS I DISAPPOINTED!
@@darrellcook8253 Agreed, because there is no other way to see anything like that on the internet.
There was a case many years ago of an entire Boy Scout troop getting wiped out when the troop leader had the boys cut some hot dog skewers out of oleander.
Many folk here in the UK keep getting effected by this plant. Because it looks exactly like a natrual flowering tree we have here. We easily mistake it.
Brugmansia is also one of flowers which are used for prayer of Lord Shiva 🙏
I've been stung by a nettle (Urtica dioica) before, and that was really painful. At least we don't have things like Poison Ivy and Oak in this country!
I'm having a tough time distinguishing the difference between Queen anne's lace and poison hemlock. Even this video showed some clips that I'm pretty sure was Queen anne's lace, not hemlock.
Poison and water Hemlock are tall plants with widely spread umbels, typically purple spotted and branched stems, and typically in ditches, wet places and along fields. First-year plants are low to the ground leaf florets with no flowers and fine carrot-like leaves. They grow tall and produce seed the second year.
Q-A-L is generally no more than 2-3 feet tall, in fields with singular, densely packed flower florets and fine carrot-like leaves and very thin, spaghetti-like stalks. The most prominent giveaways for Q-A-L is that single red flower in the middle of the floret. (May not be present in very young florets).
No, you were not wrong. They showed Q-A-L florets in with the Hemlock. This is misleading and deadly.
Ive heard white baneberry called poor mans heroin. Im told thats literally the feeling it gives you. But with no way to measure how much compound is in each berry, and the fact that it can waiver immensly from fruit to fruit... I'll just take the word for it.
Good to know about the rosasy pees. I have a necklace with them and will take care to keep it out of reach of animals and children from now on.
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I think there's a mistake with this list. My mom's Iris flowers aren't mentioned anywhere on it, but if you touched those, that was your ass...
"Plants You Should NEVER Touch"
**shows people touching several of them with their bare hands**
The video shows different night shades for the deadly one.
you are underestimating the gimpy gimpy plant. Ive rad that it is described as being douse in acid while set on fire levels of pain and some animals and one human case where the individual was driven to suicide to relive the pain
I heard of a guy who cut back his Oleander plants and burned the cuttings. He got a lung full of the smoke and nearly died.
Jimson weed is NOT related to nightshade at all. It is a close relative of the Brugmansia, and they used to be in the same genus.
That's what I thought, especially since the look similar.
Here in Nottingham just a couple of years ago a giant hogweed claimed another victim
Y'all ever seen Little Shop of Horrors? There's another plant right there. Avoid 'Audrey II' ! 😁
"15 plants you should NEVER touch"
2:45 ....................... they're touching it
Brugmansia is also a solanum like nightshade .potatoes tomatoes ,etc.
From what I understand the nightshade that grows in groups is actually edible, but the nightshade that goes in single berries should not be touched.
My gramma would give all us kids a big spoonful of castor oil before bedtime to "keep you regular" every night for at least the first 12 years of our lives. I hated the taste.
I'll stick to drinking Prune Juice 🥤.
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17:47 only place ive ever seen a yew tree is on yew tewb
Has anyone else ever come across one of these in real life? I can't imagine stumbling across a Manchineel tree on a hike!
So scary! I'm never going to nature again!
well I live in the middle of a desert wasteland about the only plant we have is the traditional cactus animals the North American mountain lion bighorn sheep in about 15 different varieties of cottonmouth including the standard North American Diamondback.
in indonesia, black nightsahade commonly called "leunca" and it is common side dish. And I never heard anyone posoned from it.
because the deadly nightshade and leunca ARNT the same species, they look similar, they are related to each other, but thats it.
your leunca is called SOLANUM NIGRUM
deadly nightshade is called SOLANUM DULCAMARA
LEARN TO GOOGLE AND QUESTION EVERY VIDEO YOU SEE ON TH-cam.
Thank you God I watched this.. make sure I show my babies. Cause lord. 🤯
Oleander smells incredible ,it has a very sweet smell
there is a plant that grows close to the Gympie-Gympie that if you rub it over the affected area it will stop the effect I learn this in the army many years ago (you should look into it ok.
What is the plantshown in the "thumbnail" picture?
So what is the plant in the cover photo?????? Did I look away and miss it?
we use to run like mad throw the fist one as kids at school such a good idea to plant it in one lol
Bruggmansia is totaly safe to touch... i had 10 in my garden...
That thumbnails about to make me act up